[wideawake]

If FDR had done the right things from 1933-1940, WWII need never have unfolded the way it did.

He only seems to have started to really care about what was going on when his precious Soviet Union was threatened.

[RKV]

"He only seems to have started to really care about what was going on when his precious Soviet Union was threatened." BINGO!

[Strategerist]

He only seems to have started to really care about what was going on when his precious Soviet Union was threatened.

Ridiculous. He was doing a heck of a lot to support Britain when the Soviet Union was still part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The Lend-Lease Act, beginning of the draft in the US, the US escorting convoys in the Atlantic and attacking U-Boats, were all BEFORE Germany invaded Russia.